Larry Rhoden: “A year later, I wrote a letter to Secretary Rawlins, picked…”

“She wrote a letter to Vilsack, tried to call administration and get some something done. Crickets. A year later, I wrote a letter to Secretary Rawlins, picked up the phone and called her. We had a conversation. She immediately went to work on that with the ujs. And a few weeks later, after a number of conversations, she called me up and says, hey, can you make it to D.C. next Wednesday for a press conference?” (14:14–14:20)

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